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The undeniable star of COP21 w as  Laurent Fabius   (seen here between the French president François Hollande   and the UN chief Ban Ki-Moo...

This happy monkey gets a good laugh out of the simple things in life: http://video.lefigaro.fr/figaro/video/la-reaction-hilarante-d-un-sin...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0w0iOCT100

You might imagine that these employees in green uniforms, working in Paris, are everyday garbage collectors. They are , in a sense,...

The COP21 project for a final agreement aimed at preventing a disastrous rise in heat of our planet has been put back a day, from Frida...

We've all known for several years that our former president Jacques Chirac is presenting inevitable signs of growing old... like all of...

This morning I received an email from an Australian lady named Henty (descendant of the famous family of Australian explorers) who now live...

Normally, we don't imagine that lions in a circus act might get beyond the control of their trainer. It's rare, but that's what ...

The COP21 president Laurent Fabius is making an all-out attempt to get people to agree. It's a difficult task. Some people would s...

The delightful little dog Dobrynya (German Shepherd race), given by Russia to France, to replace the Raid star Diesel killed at Saint-Den...

Over the last few years, several members of my Australian family have taken advantage of the addresses of places indicated in my family-hist...

Nations of the planet Earth are moving towards a fork in the road. Let's take the right direction. The outcome of COP21 will defin...

When I was a boy of 15, in my final year at Grafton High School, somebody encouraged me (?) to enter a competition for the award of a bursar...

The latest news from COP21 appears to be encouraging. People are apparently engaged in discussions and debates, searching for possible agre...

This message from Nicolas Sarkozy fills me with hope: "Voting for the right-wing Front National is a way of making sure that the Left w...

Apparently the French president François Hollande is currently visiting the aircraft carrier  Charles-de-Gaulle , in service against our Da...

Last Wednesday, in San Bernardino (California), six females and eight males were killed in a typical if not rather ordinary shootout in God...

This was certainly the most successful (popular) blog post I ever made on the subject of Australia: http://skyvington.blogspot.fr/2011/01/...

I have some Australian readers, so here's a rare kind of Gamone news item that should interest them. Yes, we have snakes here! In t...

When you're working seriously on family-history research, and attempting to blend all the data together in the form of a pleasant book, ...